from The Adventure Blog
In October of 1996, Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Shortly there after he would undergo treatment for the disease, and his subsequent recovery was nothing short of spectacular. The pro-cyclist who was all but unknown outside of his sport at the time, but he would go on to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles and become one of the most well known athletes on the planet. In January of 1997, the Lance Armstrong Foundation was formed, with the hope of rallying people together ...
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Introduction This blog is to mark the expedition to climb Mera Peak and Baruntse and all the events that subsequently unfolded. Since making a crazy return from the Himalayas on the 17 th November, the last few weeks have been nothing short of hectic. I have struggled to completely piece this blog together, since how do explain the euphoria of reaching a summit such as Baruntse, or even Mera Peak and the Amphu Labtsa, when I can’t totally understand the feelings myself. Ironically, I found writing the
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from Vertical Carnival Dispatches
Hey Vertical Carnivalites! Cedar Here! As you may or may not not I was just in Malaysia for October and had great climbing trip!
After a whirlwind three day travel sequence Lucho and I found ourselves on Tioman Island staring up at the mythical "Dragon's Horns." It was hard to believe that only one of the huge jungle spires had been climbed...until we started the approach...then it made more
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from daniel jung
On my Five Ten blog you find an article about INGA I did in the beginning of october in Gorges du Loup.
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from The Adventure Blog
While we're on the subject of Antarctica this morning, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge another important date in the history of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Race. A couple of weeks back I wrote a piece about Amundsen setting off on his journey, and today marks the 100 year anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott beginning his fateful trek to the South Pole as well. When Scott set off from England to start his polar journey, he actually had no idea that he would end up in a race with Amundsen. In early
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from Ice Factor Blog
When I picked the last weekend in October to complete my round of the Munros, I should probably have forecast that the weather might be a little "autumnal". In fact it was absolutely vile, and even the supposedly easy cycle in to Culra bothy wasn't. Nevertheless, despite my insistence that they really didn't have to follow me up the hill if they didn't want to, a motley collection braved horizontal and incessant rain to toast my last summit - the mighty Carn Dearg. The hip-flasks on the summit were much
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from High Places
Hello Steph, I just read your book and I like it a lot. I am not a climber myself yet, but will treat myself with this new hobby when I quit my job in October. Anyway, I wonder how you can climb for 24-30 hours? Are you resting anything during such monster-climbs? Kind regards Caroline [...]
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from JackGeldard.com
October has kind of been a holiday month for me so far and first up was a trip to the wonderful limestone crag of Céüse. Despite quite bad shoulder impingement I managed to climb 7 days out of 9 and have a great time in the boiling sunshine. More info on Céüse here on UKC [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
As we prep for the start of the 2011 Antarctic season to begin, it is a perfect time to reflect back to 1911, when the epic race to the Pole between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Britain's Robert Falcon Scott took place. Over the next few months, I'll be sharing important dates for events that took place during that season, which saw the first two expeditions reach the Pole, but only one made it back home. On October 19th, 1911, exactly 100 years ago today, Amundsen, along with his team (Olav ...
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from The BMC News
The Climbing Academy has now arrived in Glasgow and will open it's doors at 12noon this Friday 21st October.
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